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Rank the biggest scandals in Test cricket history
As memories of sandpapergate are rekindled by Australia's upcoming tour of South Africa, rank the biggest scandals in Test cricket's history.
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Australia's first Test tour of South Africa since the sandpapergate scandal begins on 9 October
Australia are due to play their first Test in South Africa since the sandpapergate scandal rocked the cricketing world eight years ago.
To mark one of the biggest controversies the game has ever seen, Test Match Special is asking which is Test cricket's biggest scandal.
Ten of the most famous scandals in Test cricket have been picked out by a TMS panel and we are asking you to rank them in order of how big they were.
Results of the vote will be revealed on the TMS podcast and you can read more about each scandal below the following vote.
Harold Larwood strikes Australian wicketkeeper Bert Oldfield in the head with a bouncer during the third day of the the Third Test at the Adelaide Oval in 1933
On the 1932-33 tour of Australia, England needed a plan to stop the great Donald Bradman. Douglas Jardine, England's charismatic captain, came up with a tactic that would change the game forever: Bodyline.
Jardine instructed his fast bowlers, Harold Larwood and Bill Voce, to bowl hostile, short-pitched deliveries at the Australians. In an era when batters wore no upper-body protection, England's method was criticised as unsporting and against the spirit of cricket.



